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Escaping India’s culture of education: migration desires among aspiring middle-class young men
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posted on 2023-06-21, 06:02 authored by David SanchoResearch on Indian overseas students in Australia has shown that there is an intricate connection between class and migration processes. Yet most of this work has focused on the experiences of students already abroad. Research on the formulation of migration-decisions and class dynamics from the sending side has been slow to emerge. This paper fills this gap and locates the analysis of migration desires within the literature on the Indian middle classes. I demonstrate how a middle-class culture of education that articulates hegemonic experiences, aspirations, and trajectories drives many aspiring middle-class young men to consider migrating as an alternative path to social mobility. Migration emerges as a temporary strategy geared towards accruing economic and cultural capital necessary for the fulfilment of class-based personal ambitions and wider social responsibilities at home. Migration is shown to stretch the boundaries of processes of class formation that now straddles multiple sites, resources, and aspirations.
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EthnographyISSN
1466-1381Publisher
SAGE PublicationsExternal DOI
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4Volume
18Page range
515-534Department affiliated with
- Anthropology Publications
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2017-04-10First Open Access (FOA) Date
2017-04-12First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2017-04-10Usage metrics
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